Tacoma Buddhist Temple Fall Retreat

The Rev. Michihiro Ama, an ordained Buddhist minister and assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, is the featured speaker. At 7 p.m. Oct. 12, Ama discusses the life of Tacoma's Rev. Sunya Pratt, the first non-Asian woman to be ordained as a Buddhist minister in the United States. Ama discusses “What Shoshinge Teaches Us – The Main Work of Shin Buddhism” on Oct. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.